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Mar 1, 2022 19 tweets 11 min read Read on X
Beginning of real-estate upcycle? what if an ancillary is set to grow faster and still cheap?

Let's deep dive into Greenply and understand the multiple tailwinds ahead in this thread 🧵🧵

#StocksToBuy #valueinvesting
Contents:
1) What's Wood panel
2) Industry Business model and players
3) Demand drivers
4) The Trigger - what's changing
5) Financials & Valuation
6) Antithesis
Lets und the products and business first
1) Wood panel Industry:
Industry is primarily plywood (80%) with some shares with MDF and particle board.
a) Plywood: made of thin veneers from rolling wood logs - mostly Eucalyptus. Veneers are pressed with glue to make dense plywood
1b) MDF & Particleboard: woodchips are processed in automated plants - mixed with resins & chemicals and pressed. MDF is 30-55% cheaper than plywood - so applications r growing rapidly
check out the process 👇
2) Business model:
MDF is capital intensive but high margins at higher utilizations. So price war begins if utilizations drop - classic cyclical.

Plywood is more labour intensive but low margin. ROCE is high and less cyclical👇.
The synergy comes from same distribution channel
3) Demand drivers:
a) Unorganized weakening: Paint industry got consistent growth after killing the unorganized sector. in this upcycle of RE, similar changes are happening for other ancillaries. Woodpanel's share in ancillaries r also low vs others. TAM looks to be large.
3b) Newer applications: MDF is replacing value-plywood as found replaceable applications with cheaper price. Premium plywood is more real-estate linked which is waking up. Mid segment is gradually replacing 70% unorganized.
3c) Furniture value chain: Furniture is a 1.5L cr industry in India growing at 15%. Organized is just 20% but growing at 40%+. Thanks to ecom and pick up of urban furniture all over India during Covid.
3d) Interior lifestyle: penetration of modular kitchens, wardrobes grows
4) The Trigger: Lets dig into Greenply now
a) Shift in focus: Changed strategies to be more growth focused from FY21 - reshaped dealerships + penetrated semiurban for mid segment growth (unorganized heavy) + put up capex for premium segment growth + reshaped internal teams
4b) Increasing asset light model: Instead of trading plywood to capture demand, they outsourced exclusive manufacturing contracts - so able to manage quality while leveraging on their brands. This is not easy but very ROE accretive and pro-growth - the Maruti way.
4c) Premium plywood greenfield: Sandila plant has 2.2x asset turn as using only 1/3rd of land but capex includes land+staff quarters etc
Strategic location to capture North India while Centuryply focuses on South. UP belt also has raw material close by for them -Margins accretive
4d) Foray into MDF: greenfield of 240k cbm capacity in Vadodara to come in FY24. MDF cd improve margin make ROCE more cyclical. Well they made a lot of shareholders wealth when divested Greenpanel (family MDF business) earlier. Eng wood:Ply mix is 20:80 in India vs 65:35 globally
5) Financials & Valuation:
Vol: guides 5-7% growth over industry as all set to hit unorganized.
Realization and Margins: passes on with 1 quarter lag - so near term margins look low when RM increases. Guides 13-14% OPM if RM remains here.
5a) OPM is lower than Greenpanel and Centuryply. But, that's because Fixed asset turnover is higher in plywood business while Century is a mix & Greenpanel is MDF. Here is a comparison of the three large players
5b) So ROCE is better way to look at the business which is lower than Century still higher than Greenpanel; while PE is yet to catch up. Ideally, improving margins from new plants with gradual market share driven growth shd be the key behind PE catchup.
6)Antithesis:
a) MDF is cyclical and oversupply could be risky. FY24 is going to see 53% increase in domestic MDF capacity. SO if demand doesn't grow in 20%+ CAGR, realization could decline in short term (similar to what happened in 2018)
6b) RM price inflation is a risk. Wood panel industry uses phenol and some other chemicals which is a pain point already. For passing them on, brand pull is needed. So all these players spend 3-3.5% of sales in brand building.
Disc-invested & not a reco. Pls do ur owndue dilignce
Pls RT for max reach and help us continue the hard work.

Source: Annual reports, ET, Livemint and many other
Thanks @varinder_bansal for the informative call with Greenpanel here.

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